Job Description

The Aspen Group (TAG) is one of the largest and most trusted retail healthcare business support organizations in the U.S. and has supported over 20,000 healthcare professionals and team members with close to 1,500 health and wellness offices across 50 states in four distinct categories: dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Working in partnership with independent practice owners and clinicians, the team is united by a single purpose: to prove that healthcare can be better and smarter for everyone. TAG provides a comprehensive suite of centralized business support services that power the impact of five consumer-facing businesses: Aspen Dental, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, WellNow Urgent Care, Chapter Aesthetic Studio, and Lovet Pet Healthcare. Each brand has access to a deep community of experts, tools and resources to grow their practices, and an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality consumer healthcare experiences at scale.

As a reflection of our current needs and planned growth we are very pleased to offer a new opportunity to join our dedicated team as a Director, Learning and Development, Leadership Development + Coaching.

Job Summary

This Director is an important part of the Learning and Development team and has accountabilities for leadership development + coaching strategies across the organization. This role will partner closely with the Senior Director, Leadership, Professional and Business Development and key business partners to create and implement leadership development and coaching learning solutions and programs for all audiences across the organization.

The Director, Leadership Development + Coaching is a proven leader of others who can effectively collaborate with Learning & Development, Talent Management, Human Resources and senior leaders across the organization and industry. This leader is a strong performance consultant who can develop and execute learning solutions to build leadership capability and confidence across all audiences in the organization. This leader has experience orchestrating organizationally complex work and demonstrating business impact through data. This leader must also be hands-on with a willingness to analyze and build and unafraid to roll up their sleeves to get projects done.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Partner with senior leaders and the broader L&D, TM and HR teams to understand specific development needs across leadership at all levels
• Design and deliver a suite of highly effective leadership development and coaching solutions, programs, tools and resources that elevate management and leadership capability and organizational performance. Solutions may include formal learning programs, experiential learning assignments, coaching, etc.
• Drive a learning culture across the organization
• Ensure all leadership development and coaching programs are aligned, implemented and leveraged across the organization
• Identify innovative and cost-effective solutions for leadership development + coaching
• Identify, partner with and manage appropriate external vendors
• Use data to measure success: learn, iterate and improve; analyze trends and develop proactive actions to continuously improve learning experiences
• Serves as a Leadership Development thought partner. Proactively researches and identifies opportunities to apply new thinking on Leadership Development in order to improve leader effectiveness. Stays in touch with learning field trends and best practices
• Partner with others to solve business problems and execute on leadership initiatives

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Education level: Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
• A minimum of 10+ years of relevant learning and development and coaching experience, ideally in a fast-paced organization with a distributed workforce
• A minimum of 5+ years leading a team of L&D professionals
• Advanced understanding of adult learning theory and principles
• Extensive knowledge and experience of Leadership and Executive Development including leadership development programs, assessments and executive coaching
• Well versed in digital learning, just-in-time and blended learning strategies
• Demonstrated skill in designing and implementing targeted development programs for all audiences
• Extensive knowledge of skill development and capacity building strategies, along with a strong network of leadership development resources to draw on
• Strong capabilities in the area of data analytics, as it pertains to measuring learning, especially within leadership development
• Experience providing consultation to senior leadership on strategic initiatives
• Excellent communication and influencing skills at all levels in the organization
• Flexibility and agility to be proactive in a fast paced, ever-changing environment
• Excellent facilitation skills. Experience in small and large group facilitation in multiple modalities
• Experience in developing, implementing and monitoring programs/processes that deliver high learning impact and drive business results
• Ability to travel as needed
• Role is onsite in Chicago

Salary Range: $153k – $180k with 25% bonus target

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